Golden Dragon Swordsman S2
Secret Hallway

Three human figures descended from the sky and set foot on the rocky hill. In the dark depths of the night the area still appears faintly stretched wide white color, snow cover everything there. Occasional gusts of wind blew out strange sounds, making the temperature even colder and upholding the rome's fur.

“The headquarters of the Demon Man group is across there. Above the hilly area of the rock.” said Arya while pointing towards the rock hill across the cliff. He knew because he had previously stolen information from the memory of one of the skull masks he had finished off.

Nie Zha and Fire Arm's grandfather poured their attention towards the place Arya pointed at. Although it was dark and blocked by the heavy snowfall and the density of trees that covered the scenery, they could still clearly see a building standing on top of the hill. A building that resembles a temple.

“Are you not wrong?” sahut Nie with a dubious tone. “It was a temple, where perhaps such a place was the headquarters of the bad guys.”

“Maybe I was wrong... But to find out the truth, then we have to investigate the place.” said Arya. Although he had read the mind of one of the skull masks, he himself was secretly hesitant, mind reading could not necessarily be used as a benchmark for a truth, everything must be based on concrete evidence, because it does not rule out the possibility that the person who is squeezed memory it by deceiving it by creating made-up memories aka false memories.

When they were about to head to the temple, from the south suddenly appeared some white shadows, moving quickly like a demon that was flashing wildly on a pitch black night. But the creature, though dressed in all white, and covering the head with a skull mask, is neither a demon nor a subtle creature. They were ordinary humans dressed up like demons. While jumping from one stone to another, they flashed rapidly towards the temple on top of that hill. One of them appeared to be carrying the body of a girl.

“It seems that indeed the temple is their headquarters. Very ingenious of their group, making the temple as a hiding nest to avoid suspicion of people.” murmured grandfather Arm Fire.

Without saying anything more, as if as a thought, they also then overshadowed the prowess of several white-robed figures. By disguising the aura and using the science of lightening the perfect body, they flashed extremely finely not even causing any sound.

Once on the hill, near the big tree that became the barrier between the forest and the temple gate yard, Arya and others immediately turned and languished behind the thicket. Soon some white robed figures who had been confronted by pelontos-headed guards and dressed as monks, had walked into the gate. But up ahead one of the white-robed man who was walking the very back stopped. Uprightly looking around, his attitude was as if he was looking for something. Apparently he felt a sense of foreboding that something was scouting him.

“What's up?” asked a plontos-headed guard whose right cheek was a thumb-sized tompel.

The skull-masked figure shifted his gaze which had been staring at the density of the trees shrouded in the darkness of night, turning to the guard. He shook his head slowly, “Increase your vigilance, I feel a bad feeling!.”

The guard frowned in astonishment, yet he did not dare to ask further. “Alright,.”

The skull masked figure turned his body and returned to walk after his colleagues. The gate was immediately closed again.

Behind a row of wild shrubs, Arya and the others languished motionless like rocks. Their pair of eyes each almost only occasionally blinked looking fixedly at the building in front of him.

Arya suddenly jumped up and perched on top of a tree branch. He moved his ten fingers, did a hand pattern, his eyes looked probing at the buildings within the temple's defensive walls. After gazing at some buildings, his attention now poured on the largest building standing at the northern end. There was a strange energy coming out from inside the building, felt in the sting and smelled in the cavity of his nose.

Slowly Arya flowed blood and golden energy around her eyes. Then two eyes were blinked. Arya is deploying a science called ‘Penetrating Pandang’. With the rare knowledge he obtained from the ancient scriptures, coupled with the increase in the ability of seeing power obtained after reaching the peak Star Swordsman Stage, as well as exerting his golden energy. He could see everything inside the building. But suddenly his body was hit by something. And that made him fall.

“Li Xian! What's up?” nie Zha asked worriedly because seeing Arya was like getting a dark attack until her body fell. Now he saw the young man's face was a bit pale and cold sweat soaked his body.

“I'm fine.” replied Arya while holding her chest that was still shaking due to the strange energy hit. “I should try to investigate the situation inside a building. Suddenly a strange energy hit me.” Arya looked towards the gate. Then continued,

“In the building there are underground rooms that seem to be used as a place of detention. The underground passageway was long and full of branches. I can't guess if the Demon Man leader was so powerful that he was able to launch a long-range attack at me.” Arya stop saying. His ears caught something.

“You heard something?” ask the young man.

“Yes. Singing sounds. Female voice. Strange, how is it possible in a temple like this there are singing women. Don't-don't dedemit women.” said Nie Zha with a voice and face choked

“Didn't the masked men we followed earlier bring a girl. Maybe that girl is singing. There I saw a meeting attended by many people. Maybe they're having a party.”

“Party?! Well, then instead we quickly enter this temple. They're having a party why don't they take us. Even if it is old like this, I still want to feel the pleasure of life.” said grandfather Arm Fire with spirit.

Arya shook her head, “After what I did on the investigation just now, surely our arrival is already known to the inhabitants of this temple. They will sooner or later surround us, for they consider us intruders. After all, we're not here to party, but to investigate the group of Demon Men. You two go there,.” Arya pointed to the northwest, “According to my observation, the underground passageways on the building were heading in that direction. Look for a cliff that has many cave doors. The hallways of one of the caves will take you to the building inside the temple.”

Grandfather Arm of Fire looked at Arya with a wondering expression, “We both? So you mean you're not coming with us?”

At that moment suddenly the three of them heard the sound of the gate opening. Arya quickly gestured for the two of them to leave immediately. He himself immediately flashed, his body vanished into the darkness of the night, going nowhere.

Not long ago the three of them vanished and the place, suddenly the silence of the night was torn by a loud bang, along with that shot several reddish black rays and hit the collapse of the trees that had been the place to hold Arya and the others. 

Not long after, twenty plontos-headed people flashed out of the gate, directly combing the blast site. Four trees were still devoured by fire, blazing about to illuminate the surrounding place.

“Any, I saw a shadow flashing here. In fact, there is no one in this place. There's no way they can escape the Demonlight Punch.” Said a monk who looks like a monk, he is none other than Chin Pek Cuan.

“They've run away somewhere. I also saw their prowess, Vice Chairman. I'm afraid they took advantage of our negligence to quietly enter the temple from another direction.”

Chin Pek Cuan looked around once more. His vision then hit two trees that were burning fire. “Some of you keep looking for that intruder in this forest. After meeting, immediately give a sign so that others can immediately help snatch the intruder rats.” he said. He looked at the gate then said, “The other ones comb every place around the temple. Search every building, and every corner. I suspect the intruders may not just leave.”

Chin Pek Cuan as the vice-chairman along with half of his men flashed in. The gate closed again. The protective seal that was opened when the gate was opened is now closed again.

Meanwhile, Nie Zha and the Fire Arm's grandfather took a detour. The road they were on now was much more difficult than the road leading to the ancient temple. But the steep and slippery road is not difficult for both of them who do have the science of relieving high bodies. Finally, they arrived in the rocky area, before them lay a high rock wall. There are so many cave mouth holes that are creepy, some of the caves are even shaped like human skulls.

“The caves are very similar to the Skulls... Is it possible that there are humans who deliberately make caves with this scary shape?” muttered Nie Zha as if asking himself. Beside him, his grandfather was also looking towards that tall and long wall of coral.

Nie Zha nodded, “Then which cave does Li Xian mean?”

Without saying anything, the Fire Arm grandfather had already leaped very quickly towards the caves on the left. Goa-goa that looks shaped like a human skull! He examined the caves, from the first cave to five caves to get the fact that the third cave has the largest room and deep.

“Nie Zha, come here! Maybe this goesanya.” exclaimed grandfather Arm Fire.

With Nie Zha, this grandfather then entered the third cave, a cave that was not less than twenty meters deep and four meters wide. Goa is a room that is quite spacious but certainly not tasty when used as a place to live because the floor is made of uneven stones and even more into the decline, more and more, it is a slope and also sharp like a rock in the ocean.

Very carefully and carefully, they both checked the cave. At a glance, there can be no one hiding here, because even if the cave is an isolated place but it is very unpleasant to be used as a place to live.

As they examined the darkened room with only the illumination of the flaming fire element in a pair of hands, Nie Zha suddenly found a tunnel in the right corner. If you do not approach and feel, it seems difficult to find this tunnel. He did not enter immediately, but called his grandfather.

Grandfather Arm of Fire immediately approached when called Nie Zha. he checked by fumbling the tunnel doorway, his heart pounding felt the iron board behind the stone that seemed to have closed the tunnel. It is clear that this tunnel is a secret door that has not been opened for a long time.

If the door is returned to its place, then it will disappear and the wall in the corner will disappear anyway, as for the wall behind the stone there is a tunnel. And of course, in the slightest no one would have guessed because the door seemed to be one with the wall of the cave.

“Let's go inside. Who knows this door will take us into the temple headquarters.” said grandfather Arm Fire.

“Kek, why don't we just enter the temple and even bother ourselves to go around looking for a secret path like this?” nie Zha asked with annoyance mixed in wonder.

Grandfather Arm of Fire shook his head, “I don't understand either. but whatever it is, surely the boy has a certain purpose. Let's go in.”

With a curious feeling they entered the dark tunnel. The tunnel turned out to be quite large, but they had to enter it with a slightly bent body. The floor there is flatter than the floor in the front room of the cave. This led to the assumption that this place was deliberately made by people.

They had just taken a step or so twenty steps, suddenly a loud sound was heard behind him! With a reflex motion, the two of them had evaded every sharp weapon that had descended from the left right stone wall. Apparently this place is fitted with secret tools. And when they looked at the door, the door closed the tunnel.

Seeing the panicked look on Nie Zha's face, Fire Arm's grandfather held back a smile. “Do not panic! We can definitely get out of here by breaking down that stone door. Now we keep walking down this aisle. As Li Xian said, I believe that this passageway is the way to the temple.”

So in a calm manner once the Fire Arm grandfather continued his journey, following the dark tunnel path. He poured out all his five senses, preparing to face in case there was any danger of attack from around him.

According to the Fire Arm's grandfather's calculations, the distance he had occupied since he entered the tunnel was no less than a kilometer! After walking around the tunnel, they paused for a moment. Now they are in a square room. Just as they were observing around, suddenly there was the sound of the wind roaring and the sound of iron meeting the rock.

The two quickly dodged to and fro, dodging every sharp object that slid from the four corners. Because of their incredible speed, none of the weapons were able to hit them.

After the incision of the sharp objects ended, Fire Arm's grandfather then fumbled on the wall near him. He discovered that the wall was not a stone like the wall he had passed through, but a steel wall one spear thick. Grandfather Arm Fire then checked the walls at the other corner. The walls were also made of very strong steel. They've been locked up!

From the direction of the corner of the rectangular room suddenly a rumbling sound was heard. In the next instant, the place was brightened by the flames of the torch.

There were dozens of people wearing white robes with red-horned skulls on their chests. The faces of those people were covered in skull masks. Now they stood before the open steel door. All of them had quite high cultivation, evident from their nimble and light footwork when they came closer.

Even in such a confined state and besieged by dozens of enemies, Nie Zha could still smile cynically and even yell, "Huuhh, it turned out to be a group of Demon Man that the person feared, just a collection of mountain rats whose greatness only rely on the holes of the rat traps and mere braking!”

The dozens of pairs of eyes behind the skull masks gave off a glittering glow of signs that they were furious, their hearts as if doused in a very hot lava heard the very humbling and insulting speech. But they can still be calm because the one who cursed is a very beautiful and attractive girl. One of those standing on the sidelines said, his voice was subtle but full of threats and bir*hi cravings.

“The two of you are captive, your lives are now in our palms. You are a beautiful and brave girl, but also a fool and seem to be tired of life. Whoever dares to be presumptuous to enter our area without permission, is certainly dead. But because you are beautiful, give yourself well to be safe. Now give up, so that we do not drop hard hands, damage your beautiful face and hurt your voluptuous body.”

The man gestured with his hand. A dozen of his friends suddenly took out their respective weapons and pointed them towards Nie Zha and the Fire Arm grandfather. Presumably they were preparing to attack when the two hostages resisted using violence.

Nie Zha who had been ignited by his anger immediately stepped forward, but was soon arrested by his grandfather. As a person who has full of experience, of course, this grandfather does not want to immediately obey his anger. Indeed, when he willed, he would be able to knock down these dozens of people. But he knew that this was unwise. He wanted to first extract some information from the skull masked men.

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Many commented why it was too long to tell other characters, not focus on the MC only.

Do you know Naruto and One Piece?

Is the story just focused on the MC?

Even to discuss a single arc takes years. Many new characters are told.

There are still many stories or films that tell a lot of things. For example, Mahabarata, Ramayana, Hanoman, Jaka Sembung, Angling Darma, Tinular said, and so forth.

Keep in mind this novel contains adventure stories and martial world, which must cover many aspects of life, not only tell the MC from the beginning until the end.